5 Emulation

By default the LispWorks Editor emulates GNU Emacs. This is often unusable for programmers familiar only with KDE/Gnome keys and behavior: for instance, a selection is not deleted on input, and most of the commonly used keys differ.

The LispWorks editor can be switched to emulate the KDE/Gnome model instead of Emacs.

When using KDE/Gnome emulation the main differences are:

An alternate set of key bindings for the commonly-used commands.

The abort gesture for the current editor command is
Esc
, not
Ctrl+G
.